The Internal Stratification of Thomistic Juridical Realism (Popović & Schouppe)
In Natural Law & Thomistic Juridical Realism: Prospects for a Dialogue with Contemporary Legal Theory, Petar Popović draws on the scholarship of Jean-Pierre Schouppe to present a three-level account of Thomistic juridical realism. In Chapter 2, “The Realistic Conception of Right and Juridicity,” Popović includes a section titled “The Internal Stratification of Thomistic Juridical Realism.” The […]
Cultivating the awareness of God and cultivating university donors
Catholic higher education in the United States faces some difficulties in common with higher education in the United States more generally, some difficulties specific to the Catholic Church, and some difficulties specific to Catholic education in the United States more generally. At the same time, institutions of Catholic higher education possess potentialities for renewal, including […]
Annum Sacrum, Consecration to the Sacred Heart, and the Judiciary Power of Christ
Annum Sacrum is an 1899 encyclical letter by Pope Leo XIII exhorting consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. The Leonine mixture of devotional and political theology in this letter is worthy of study. One interesting feature that stood out to me when reading the letter today was the way in which Pope Leo […]
